Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-32303-20130422051803/@comment-4423064-20130422214351

First and foremost they are NOTHING like SOPA and PIPA. These deal with Intelectual Property(The IP in PIPA) and they would have allowed companies to take down sites they believed were using licenced property illegally. However that is NOT what CISPA is.

CISPA deals with the reporting of actual crimes and would give websites(Such as Facebook, Google, Youtube, and even Wikia) To(If they had been given permission by the government to do so) report a user who they found to be planning or announcing that they would commit a crime large enough for the national government to care about.

It does not, however, allow the sites to use this information to make money by selling it, nor does it allow them to give this information to anyone but representatives of the Federal Government and the Department of Defence. So essentially so long as you are not committing a crime then you have nothing to worry about here. And please do remember, this website is PUBLIC DOMAIN and can be seen by anyone. It is not your house and it is in fact constitutionally sound in regards to privacy. The 4th ammendment only applies to your private property, AKA your house, car, and anything that you actually own and store things in.